Fic: Trees Too Tall To Climb

[thisbluespirit]

So, in the middle of all this, I actually wrote another Star Wars fic, this one for halfamoon prompt "Legacy", allbingo square "Rose Leaf - You May Hope" and 100_women prompt "Mother", but I didn't post it here in the interest of not giving myself away with Prequel feels. Not that I imagined anyone would care that much which ChocoBox fic I wrote, but I was so obvious in Remix, I thought I should make the effort at anonymity this time. And you can't pretend to still be casual about SW while writing fic about Obi-Wan Kenobi's mother.

Anyway, there's a canonical tag for her and in the process of writing the other fic, I got curious, and this happened. Because there are different kinds of heroism, really, and I wanted to play with that.

(This isn't based on any actual EU stuff beyond Obi-Wan being apparently taken to the Jedi later than most - Wookieepedia has pretty much nothing on his parents or home planet that's still canon, and very little more even in Legends. He had parents, and his planet had grass. Probably.)

Trees Too Tall to Climb (1340 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Obi-Wan Kenobi's Mother
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi's Mother, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Community: 100_women, Community: halfamoon, Mother-Son Relationship, Sacrifice, Jedi, Stewjon, Backstory, Pre-Canon, Community: allbingo
Summary: She's never been this brave before...


(I swear I 100% have no more Prequel fic up my sleeve, at least currently! Next up should hopefully be finally fixing my much-over due Yuletide fic, which is a very different fandom indeed.)

Comments

[shannonsequitur]

I realize that I could just look this up myself, but what’s the usual age that children start Jedi training in SW?

(I got hit with an idea a couple of days ago that uses the Jedi Order as a metaphor for religious fundamentalism, which would be certain to go over really well with everyone if anything ever came of it. 😬)

[thisbluespirit]

Apparently within their first year, often as young as six months! 0_o (This is why Anakin is too old.)

I think if you did that, the fandom would be in line with you, they seem to do that already all the time and are too mean to them. (I get it, but I don't think they are really equivalent at all, and in consequence of reading so much fic hating on them, I'm feeling defensive. The fandom will support you! I'll fight you, though, just because Yoda's ears go so sad when they all get slaughtered. ;-p)

[shannonsequitur]

Well, yeah, it’s not a perfect analogy, but it works for my nefarious purposes.

[sallymn]

It's way too early in the morning.... just have to mention I looked at this and swear I read "what’s the usual age that children start Jedi training in SWIMMING?"

Which, umm, is a wonderfully appealing mental picture :)

[shannonsequitur]

Somehow I don’t doubt that Jedi training frequently involves children being recklessly tossed into water and left to deal with it.

(Mostly I’m just replying because I ❤️ your icon.)

(Edited to add that I have no contact with expanded universe stuff, so I could be either dead right or dead wrong here.)

[sallymn]

Thank you!!

(Me neither)